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An awkwardly worded question and a poorly phrased answer by a government official have launched speculation and debate about the possibility of a draft. Most of it is wrong or at least misguided, but reflects a growing uncertainty over what comes next in the ongoing fight with Iran.
The latest flurry of concern about a draft came after a Sunday interview between White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.

A Pentagon task force published back-to-back guidelines about anti-drone technology this week, illustrating the military’s attempt at quickly delivering such capabilities — following standardized testing — while heeding federal laws prohibiting domestic surveillance.
Joint Interagency Task Force 401, an Army-led entity established last year and tasked with boosting the military’s counter-unmanned aerial systems repertoire, has headed the Pentagon’s expansion of installation authorities to knock down drones in the U.S.

Since the United States and Israel began intensive airstrikes against Iran on Feb. 28, Iran has retaliated with missile and drone strikes against multiple Arab countries. Although Iran says it is striking U.S. military targets based in the Arab states, it has also hit civilian infrastructure and buildings. Iran has hit targets in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Jordan. The war marks a hard stop to a recent warming in relations between Iran and some Gulf Arab states.

The Danish Army has selected BAE Systems OneArc (OneArc) to provide the foundation for its new enterprise virtual training environment.

With the war against Iran in its second week, the U.S. military’s focus now includes destroying factories that build one-way attack drones and preventing the Iranian military from using sea mines, said Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“U.S [Central Command] continues today to hunt and strike mine-laying vessels in mine storage facilities,” Caine said during a Tuesday Pentagon news conference. “This work will continue.”
Caine did not specify exactly how many vessels, storage facilities, or sea mines have been destroyed so far.

Iran’s strategy offers little beyond its increasing drone tactics, which make the IRGC’s success dependent on sustaining Shahed production.

The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the NSA, ending nearly a year of leadership uncertainty at the agencies and putting a new chief at the helm amid an ongoing war with Iran.
Rudd, who previously served as deputy commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and worked in the special operations community, was nominated in December by President Donald Trump for the dual-hat role of Cybercom and NSA boss, despite having a limited cyber background.
In April 2025, the Trump administration fired Air Force Gen.

Babcock has secured a contract to provide in-service support for the British Army’s Field Electrical Power Supplies (FEPS) power generators.

The Defense Department on Tuesday unveiled a new “Agent Designer” tool that will run on its GenAI.mil platform.
The tool is being integrated with Google Gemini capabilities, according to the announcement.
In a message posted on social media, the Pentagon CTO’s office said that 3 million employees at the department — including those without coding experience — can use the technology to create their own “custom AI assistants to automate tasks and streamline complex workflows” for a variety of mission areas.

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.